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Rating Your Innovation Program: Vanity Metrics vs. True Impact

Moves the Needle

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? You are measuring website traffic, video views, innovation team sign-ups, etc. When it comes to measuring the success of your innovation program, engagement in the real world and observed behavior change are primary. Getting the numbers right is crucial.

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Culture Jolt #28 - Lean into myths, not just methods

Values Centered Innovation

The result can be profound insights into yourself and others that bring out your full, innovative potential, whether in small, daily tasks or major projects. . Jolt #28: Lean into myths, not just methods. They emphasize a shift of focus that taps into a deeper, more expansive consciousness.

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Qmarkets and Accel IQ Digital Partner to Strengthen Strategic Open Innovation Management Activities

Qmarkets

This partnership will enable both Qmarkets’ customers to benefit from the vast experience and expertise of Accel IQ and its community, and Accel IQ’s to benefit from Qmarket’s best-in-class software tools to drive their innovation programs forward.

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Why We’re Digging Deep at Lean Startup Conference 2018

Moves the Needle

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact.

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Top Themes from Open Nation DC

IdeaScale

Contreras dived into the importance of goal-setting and quantifiable metrics to any innovation program. However, he cautioned against avoiding “vanity metrics,” a term coined by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries. Commander Howell’s leadership has been integral in growing the innovation program at the U.S.

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Innovation - fast and slow, for the right reasons

Jeffrey Phillips

For quite some time we've been hearing about how important it is to do things quickly, with many new adjectives placed in front of the word "innovation". What has worked in more traditional settings - manufacturing, process improvement, etc - is now being applied to innovation. When can you move fast?

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.